The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 126
And a second time I will forgive you; but the third time beware!
Who acts: I · What happens: forgive, beware · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgive | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgive | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 forgive | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgive | aux |
| 7 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 forgive | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 beware | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 beware | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beware | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forgive | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | future | I | you | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | beware | infinitive | I not said here | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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